C796 The Power Game of the Middle Age

Xiao Letian made a gesture with his hand towards Zai Chun, causing the little emperor to quickly move his ear closer, only to hear the bewitching Prime Minister say in a very low voice, "In front of you, there are two paths. The first is to follow the old ways and continue to be a prodigal until the Great Qing Dynasty is destroyed.

Perhaps you will be able to extend your lifespan a little more. As for whether you can succeed, and how many years you can last, it will be up to the heavens to decide … But even if you fail, you, Zai Chun, can at least say those words to the ancestor without a doubt in your heart! "

"At least I've tried. At least I've tried. At least I've never been a deserter!"

Outside the window, it was already the beginning of the red sun. Xiao Letian stretched his body lazily as he shouted out the window, "Prepare breakfast for me. You can't even sleep in peace if you want to! "

Xiao Letian patted his head and sighed, "I know that these principles are a bit too profound for you, but there's no other way. "Since you've already taken on the most difficult job in the world, you can only learn to mature quickly without any other shortcuts …"

Watching Xiao Letian walk out of the study room, Zai Chun said loudly, "I still have one last question! They said that Master, your destiny is to have your left hand holding the merchants and your right hand holding the army. You want to mix the martial arts with the merchant, and you want to share the world with the martial arts with the martial artists and merchants … Is this your destiny? "

Xiao Letian was stunned. He slowly turned around and looked at Zai Chun in disbelief, "Did they really say that? Was this how they interpreted fate? Is destiny the division of power in their eyes? "

"Hahaha …" Xiao Letian immediately laughed, "How laughable that I have always kept those rotten scholars as my half enemy. After seeing them today, they seemed to have wasted my energy and saliva, and this kind of 'enemy' who isn't even worthy of carrying my shoes for me …"

"You don't even know what Heaven's Mandate is, and you still dare to become the emperor's master? "Forget it, go comprehend it yourself first. I'll go eat first …"

Xiao Letian was the only one left in a daze. He picked up a big bowl of fragrant millet porridge, picked up a bowl of oily crab powder and started stuffing it into his mouth, as if he was a reincarnation of starved ghost.

As he ate, he laughed in his heart. This group of corrupt scholars, what kind of era was it to actually have the same way of explaining Heaven's Mandate? Furthermore, the explanation was so far-fetched, Zou Yan's Five Virtue Theory was originally used by the emperor to deceive people.

The emperor belonged to Earth De, the Xia Dynasty belonged to Mu De, the Shang Dynasty belonged to Jin De, and the Zhou Dynasty was naturally the Fire De … This was still not easy to calculate. The Qin Dynasty destroyed the Zhou Dynasty, that was the Water De. Anyway, the Qin people advocated black, and black represented water in China.

No one who had read a few years' worth of books would believe this fatuous doctrine. Even the Confucians themselves would use it as a tool to deceive the common people.

Actually, what Feng Fu said to the little Emperor last night was the true understanding that the elites of the Ancient China had of fate. Your emperor said on the surface that it was the bestowal of authority to the gods, that you were the Son of Heaven, but only ignorant citizens would believe this kind of nonsense.

In the hearts of the elites, the so-called destiny was to know which power the Emperor borrowed to ascend to the throne, and with whom he was prepared to share the world with. If he understood this, he would naturally understand what fate was.

The Qin and Han dynasties used to be a feudal system, the Son of Heaven shared the world with the aristocrats, the big and small aristocrats divided all the resources in the country, the rest were dependent on them, at that time the aristocrats would grasp the productive forces and resources, including knowledge.

In any era, whoever obtained the support of the nobles would be given their destiny.

Even if the First Emperor abolished the feudal fiefdom and established a county, when the Han dynasty was first founded, Liu Bang still had to make a huge feudal fiefdom. This showed how strong the power of habit was.

It wasn't that Liu Bang couldn't see the drawbacks of the system, or that he didn't understand the benefits of the emperor's county system. It was just that Liu Bang was very pragmatic and had no choice.

Productivity, resources, population and knowledge are monopolized by the nobility. If you don't share the world with them, who else can you find?

After the nobility, there were clans, and after the gates appeared the warlords, finally giving birth to an independent landowner class, which was followed by the emergence of an independent group of Scholars.

That's right, the group of Scholars only started to become independent in Song Dynasty. Before the Song Dynasty, the group of Scholars were all attached to other classes, and did not start to become independent.

Not all literati in Chinese history are corrupt scholars! Many true scholars were as meticulous as a bulldozer in dissecting society at the time.

They can clearly rationalize the distribution of power in one country, find the most united group in the complex political struggle, and strike at the other.

The wise emperors understood the gist of this. They would know who their true allies in power were, and who their powers should be shared with.

Xiao Letian had a sinister smile on his face. He drank the porridge to the point that he did not even know how to wipe the corner of his mouth. He was so lost in thought that he did not even know how to eat after his chopsticks went through the Soup Dumplings.

"This bunch of corrupt scholars, acting so rashly, sleeping so much in the experience of the old ancestor, completely not knowing how to change the situation, how could they take out such a deceptive theory to trick Zai Chun, to fight with me! "Heeheehee …"

Fu Hui was like a little mother as she wiped Xiao Letian's face with a handkerchief. "Eat well, why is it that the more you eat, the more insidious you become? What are you holding back for, and what kind of trick is it that's bullying people? "

Xiao Letian was not annoyed, he pinched his wife's butt, "My wife, I used to think that the enemy was only beating up tigers, but now that I look at it, he is just a sick cat, I was really overthinking it …"

The Qin Dynasty used powerful armies to sweep through the Six Paths of Unity, but in the end, they did not share the world with the warlords, nor did they share the world with the aristocrats. Instead, they created a county system. Although Xiao Letian acknowledged that a county system really had a huge advancement in status, if one took a step too far, it would really drag him down to hell.

Can't you, Qin Shi Huang, make a five-year plan, a decade of development, and arrange three generations of descendants? You have to do it all at once? In this world, you are half a step more than others. You are a genius, and one step more than others makes you a madman.

If you want to set up a county system, do you have a huge civil servant base in your hands? Were those civil officials raised and raised by the free landowner class? You don't even have a basics base, what the f * * k are you doing!?

Look at Liu Bang, this little hoodlum is a practical person! He knew what he was capable of. He knew that he grew up in the cracks of the country, so after the founding of the country, he made a huge feudal division. The meritorious officials, nobles, and their families all received benefits, do you think that they would not support the rule of the Han Dynasty?

After that, he would recuperate and the Martial Emperor would retract his power. He did not dare to completely take care of everything, so he had to do it slowly.